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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Stories From the Old Attic by Robert Harris: "Yes," replied the soldier. "I'm waiting for more ammunition."
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Once in a pleasant garden there stood a tree, from which, legend
said, God himself would one day reign. But instead, a group of
wicked men broke in and chopped the tree down. They hacked the tree
into a beam and nailed a holy man to it, leaving him to die upon a
hill. So the tree of hope now had become a beam covered with blood
and death. "See here," the wicked men said, laughing with scorn,
"in what manner God's promises are fulfilled."
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The chairman of the department asked the young professor how his
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